Roache 'didn't want gratuitous sex'

Coronation Street star William Roache said he was looking for love rather than “gratuitous sex” amid the collapse of his first marriage, a court heard today.

Roache, 81, told a jury he cheated on his wife with “a series of relationships” in the mid-to-late 1960s at a time when he is alleged to have committed two rapes and four indecent assaults.